So If this happens, I think the announcement could be anytime between this afternoon to whenever the Pac 12 deal runs out (believe it's summer of 2024).
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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Not sure how many would. I have said for years I would rather pay $25/ month to watch ISU everything and completely skip any and all other college and ESPECIALLY pro sports of any kind. I'd pay more to watch Big 12 all together and skip all the other stuff. I don't give a rip about anything that does not in some way involve my team. Presently I have to pay for all that wonderful content that I never use. I am in Iowa and I watch maybe 3 Iowa games a year (guess which ones). BUT, I am a FANATIC about my team. Probably not even close to the norm.
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND anyone who watches college sports to watch just "the best teams". That does not make them wrong. That does not mean they aren't in the vast majority. But, I know at least 20 people that are more like me than the other way around that would easily pay $25 / month to watch their Cyclones.
AND, I would give MORE to watch my Cyclones and not ***** about it if I knew most of the money was going to ISU and not to all the other highfalutin ******* conferences that ESPN and FOX are setting up to take the payday. I would get out of ESPN so fast it would make their head spin and feel GREAT about it. (They, of course, would not give a rip.)
This guy is worse than MHver3 somehow. He's been the same but with worse predictions.
I love the absolutes some posters use. No evidence, no money value, no reason.
While I agree that SDSU is far down on the list of adds, their pedigree as a mid major isn't all that different than Cincy, UCF or Houston. The Big12 added those 3 programs with the believe that being in a P5 conference will elevate those programs over time. Using house buying vernacular- they are in good locations and the buildings have good bones.
Along with BYU, if the Big12 adds UU, ASU, UA then down the line SDSU could make sense. It would give the Big12 visibility in So Cal a growing population area.
There's no hurry to add a SDSU, but they could grow into a P5 school. Same as our 3 recent adds.
We added schools with potential because we didn't have any better options at the time. We had to promote the best mid majors available because there was nothing else. If the opportunity comes to snag an existing P5 instead you take it. To continue the analogy, those schools are move in ready.
But there are only so many P5 adds. Sure ACC schools may come available. But that might be 10+ years.
But if down the line, the Big12's media partner sees value in getting bigger (20-24 teams), then SDSU makes sense. An Amazon or Paramount+ might look at this different than Fox or ESPN.
In 2012 it made sense for the Big10 to add Rutgers. In 2028, it might make sense for the Big12 to add SDSU.
Swaim used to be a good recruiting guy, not sure but sounds like he's supposedly quoting assistant coaches that he has relationships with. It would be like CW using an unnamed assistant ISU coach.
Mhver is a total troll.
I wouldn't believe anything unless The Athletic, Espn, or fox sports reports it as fact.
Mhver is a total troll.
I wouldn't believe anything unless The Athletic, Espn, or fox sports reports it as fact.
Mhver takes the Twitter approach of giving 50 hot takes and boasting about being right 3/50
Hope one day there is a streaming service that shows all the Big 12 football and Men's basketball games, without any location lock. Would pay a premium for that.
Thread from another CFB writer confirming what seems to be the consensus at the moment, that Pac schools are trying to stick together. They've clearly realized, correctly, that they don't have to rush into any panic moves at this moment. Probably not great for our chances to land them.
Living in B1G country, I'm terrified by this potential future. My favorite spot to watch the games is in one of a handful of bars, and they'll happily put ISU on a TV for us now (the audio, even, if Wisconsin isn't overlapping), but that may go away with streaming only.
